One of the best products I have ever seen.
Best wishes for the future!

Marlies and I have been flying our Archaeopteryx for a bit over a year now. This passing summer (southern hemisphere) was our first season we went extensively cross country with the Archaeopteryx. This glider has surpassed all of our expectations. The glider is very easy to fly, climbes in the smallest amount of lift and has an exceptional glide for such a light weight glider. We are not professional pilots but have some extensive hanggliding experience over the last 25 years. The Archaeopteryx has enabled us to fly when we wouldn't bother taking out the hang gliders. It also has allowed us to become much more independant as we were able to fly mainly triangle and out of return task, hence we would not require a driver.
Over the last 7 month Marlies and I shared this glider and have done around 180 hours together. We have completed many FAI triangles of above 200km with the biggest FAI triangle of 330km. At one stage we decided to fly from our farm (Boort, Victoria, Australia) to the hanggliding competition in Forbes. Even though the weather was not great Marlies managed to fly 483km in just under 9 hours and landed a few km short of the goal. Winter flying which usually has been fairly limited suddenly allowed us to do 3-4 hour cross country flights, something we thought would not be possible. Well we are now busy with our olive farm harvesting and we are already looking forward to push the boundaries next season. I think the goal with the best light glider available on the market would be to do a 400km FAI triangle. We will see. Thanks Roger and Cornelia to allow us to fly this unbelivably well manufactured and balanced aircraft. Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.

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gentlemen,
I want one Archaeopteryx, can bring to Spain? What would be your price? My congratulations.
thanks,
Francisco Gomez

Havent done gliding for a while, and after seeing your product, got to get my licence back! wish to see this in skys of Finnish Lapland one day.

Ach wie gerne hätte ich selber so einen... Aber da ist mit meinem Konto nix zu machen... :(

Viel Spass allen, die sich das gönnen können und dürfen!!

Und: Geniale Idee und Umsetzung!!

Eu sou piloto de asa delta e ultraleve avançado e moro no Estado do Ceará, Brasil. Gostaria de saber de já existem modelos como este voando no Brasil. Meu e-mail é constantinofrate@gmail.com

@ Jacques Bott ... And afterwards Philippe's early stage windshield was changed by providing more thickness. This because at speeds above 80 km/h we realized noisy and massive deformation on the old windshield. A little change that proved to have a big influence on the windshields deformation stabilty and therefore the overall cockpit aerodynamics. Since then we are very happy with the glide performance even above 85 km/h. All the best!

Gostei!!!!!!!

Abraços,
Paulo Rattes
Aranha - Minas Gerais
Brasil

I flew one full week with Philippe Bernard in the french southern Alps, he with the Archeo and I with the Swiftlight: the Archeo climbs better, the Swiftlight glides only better above 85 km/h.
And I had the opportunity to fly the Archeopterix: it is very easy to fly (what cannot be stated about the Swift)

Congratulations. See this kind of glider is believe that soaring will be accessible to more pilots to have your own glider.
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Edmilson/São Paulo/Brazil